Perturbation of bacteriochlorophyll molecules in Fenna–Matthews–Olson protein complexes through mutagenesis of cysteine residues

R Saer, GS Orf, X Lu, H Zhang, MJ Cuneo… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) pigment–protein complex in green sulfur
bacteria transfers excitation energy from the chlorosome antenna complex to the reaction …

Physiological Studies of Chlorobiaceae Suggest that Bacillithiol Derivatives Are the Most Widespread Thiols in Bacteria

J Hiras, SV Sharma, V Raman, RAJ Tinson, M Arbach… - MBio, 2018 - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT Low-molecular-weight (LMW) thiols mediate redox homeostasis and the
detoxification of chemical stressors. Despite their essential functions, the distribution of LMW …

Integrated In Silico Analysis of Pathway Designs for Synthetic Photo-Electro-Autotrophy

M Volpers, NJ Claassens, E Noor, J Van Der Oost… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The strong advances in synthetic biology enable the engineering of novel functions and
complex biological features in unprecedented ways, such as implementing synthetic …

The chlorobiaceae, chloroflexaceae, and heliobacteriaceae

MT Madigan, NAV Schaaf, WM Sattley - Modern Topics in the …, 2017 - Springer
Here we examine the basic biology of three major groups of “green” anoxygenic
phototrophic bacteria: the green sulfur bacteria (Chlorobiaceae), the green nonsulfur …

Anaerobic energy dissipation by glycosylated carotenoids in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum

C Azai, J Harada, S Fujimoto, S Masuda… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Carotenoids are linear polyenes and universal pigment molecules that support natural
photosynthesis by light harvesting and photoprotection. Some carotenoids are glycosylated …

Mutation-induced perturbation of the special pair P840 in the homodimeric reaction center in green sulfur bacteria

C Azai, Y Sano, Y Kato, T Noguchi, H Oh-Oka - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Homodimeric photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) in green sulfur bacteria and
heliobacteria are functional homologs of Photosystem (PS) I in oxygenic phototrophs. They …

Chlorobaculum tepidum modulates amino acid composition in response to energy availability, as revealed by a systematic exploration of the energy landscape of …

AT Levy, KH Lee, TE Hanson - Applied and Environmental …, 2016 - journals.asm.org
Microbial sulfur metabolism, particularly the formation and consumption of insoluble
elemental sulfur (S0), is an important biogeochemical engine that has been harnessed for …

Over-expression of the C82-methyltransferase BchQ in mutant strains of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum limnaeum for synthesis of C8-hyper-alkylated …

J Harada, T Mizoguchi, Y Kinoshita… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The pigment 8-isobutyl-12-ethyl-([,][I, E]) bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c is key to
chlorosomal self-aggregation structures in vivo and was found to produce an organogel in …

[PDF][PDF] Physiological studies of Chlorobiaceae suggest that bacillithiol derivatives are the most widespread thiols in bacteria. mBio 9: e01603-18

J Hiras, SV Sharma, V Raman, RAJ Tinson, M Arbach… - 2018 - academia.edu
ABSTRACT Low-molecular-weight (LMW) thiols mediate redox homeostasis and the
detoxification of chemical stressors. Despite their essential functions, the distribution of LMW …

Studies of the green sulphur bacterial reaction centre from Chlorobaculum tepidum

KU Ashraf - 2014 - theses.gla.ac.uk
Photosynthetic organisms harvest sunlight through antenna light-harvesting complexes.
Light absorbed by chromophores is transferred down an energy gradient to a reaction centre …